Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.
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I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.
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That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.
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The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
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The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
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The true Mason does not hold or teach the attitude that, I am a Master Mason now and thus I no longer need to be concerned with using the working tools because they were given in the earlier degrees.
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The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
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The Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith and love in God, and charity toward man.
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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
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We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
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The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.
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The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
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I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.
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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.
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If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won’t then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.
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Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
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